Oscar Wilde Quotes

History is a distillation of rumor.

Oral storytelling goes back so long ago, and those stories that were told orally were always layered and changed with time.

From the beginning of time, we've told stories, Shamans and Medicine People, and not to be pompous about it, but I feel like that is the lineage I take down and where I come from. There is magic to storytelling.

Throughout history, story telling was at the very beginning of life.

I think the story is the most ancient form of human entertainment.

The human race has been telling stories since it began.

The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority.

Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.

Storytelling is important. Part of human continuity.

Legends are all to do with the past and nothing to do with the present.

All the great history has been written with passion …. Fiction is history from below.

The word “History” is mostly made up of the word “Story”.

I was brought up telling stories, when I was a kid, in the tiny village where I grew up. Storytelling was a tradition.

History has its truth; and so has legend hers.

I love telling stories. I think of myself as a storyteller, and I don't feel bound by being just a singer or an actress. First, I'm a storyteller, and history is stories - the most compelling stories. There is a lot you can find out about yourself through knowing about history. I have always been attracted to things that are old. I have just always found such things interesting and compelling.

You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come with it.

My background is deep and set in deep time, and in a narrow space, oral traditions going back a long, long time, which I inherited by osmosis.

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.

The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself.

Passed down from generation to generation, storytelling was an art in my family.

I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables. There's something interesting and funny and perverse about the way fairytale sometimes passes for history, for truth.

In the ancient times, bards went around singing the epics, which were storehouses of philosophy.

Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does.

Storytelling is an ancient and honorable act. An essential role to play in the community or tribe. It's one that I embrace wholeheartedly and have been fortunate enough to be rewarded for.

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.